REGIONAL SECURITY MANAGER, AMERICAS

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE

The Regional Security Manager (RSM) will work to reduce the risks faced by CARE personnel, assets and programs in CARE’s presences in the Americas, including the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Management Unit and country presences as well as domestic presences in the US, through the provision of specialized, coordinated and focused safety and security preparedness and management support.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership, Coaching, Mentoring and Capacity Building
• Administrative and Financial Management Responsibilities
• Develop strategies, procedures and protocols and assess security management for all presences in the region
• Develop strategies, procedures and protocols and assess security management for all presences in the region.
• Assessments, Planning and Information Management
• Crisis Management
• Regional liaison and representation

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in a field related to humanitarian work or security risk management
• Formal safety and security qualifications and/or formal training certification
• Advanced qualification in risk management, emergency response or business continuity planning
• Certified competency in Office 365
• Fluency in Spanish and English
• Five years’ experience in assisting international organizations in developing security strategies for their operations in multicultural contexts
• Three years’ experience in managing security professionals and mentoring security focal points
• Three years’ experience working living in developing countries/contexts with at least two years operations in complex/post-conflict environments
• Two years’ experience overseeing travel risk management systems